HIST 1378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mail Order, Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
19 Sep 2016
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Thematic thesis: no change was more profound than the growing size and influence of. Having begun primarily as an agricultural republic, the united states in the late. A new middle class emerges, attempts to reshape image of the nation. Rising incomes created new markets for consumer goods. Chain stores, mail order houses, and dept stors. Changes in the market shaped the way americans bought goods. Encourages equal pay wage and prices on goods. The urban working, middle, and professional classes now had more time off. In earlier times, few americans would have considered leisure a thing of value. Leisure became part of life, and many began to enjoy these new forms of entertainment. Rise of mass entertainment, divided by gender. People of different classes debated over appropriate public behaviors. Baseball-- early versions of game appeared in america in the early 1830s.
